blackball

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Blackball, black-ball, black ball, blackballed, or blackballing may refer to:

  • Blackballing, a rejection in a traditional form of secret ballot

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Film

Games

  • Blackball, a monster in the Mystara campaign setting of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

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Music

Sports

  • The {{Cuegloss|Black ball|black ball}} in pocket billiards games including pool and snooker
  • Blackball (pool), a variant of the pocket billiards game eight-ball
  • Blackball, alternate name for Negro league baseball
  • Blackball (surfing), a flag to show surfers that they must clear the water

Other

  • Blackball, New Zealand, a small town located on the western coast of the South Island of New Zealand
  • Blackball Branch, a branch railway line to Blackball, New Zealand
  • The Black Ball, an annual fundraising dance for the Keep a Child Alive charity
  • "Black ball", alternative name for Shade ball
  • Black Ball: a round black shape hoisted at a ship's mast head, with various contextual meanings.
  • "Blackballing", a form of male hazing ritual in which the victim's genitals are covered in black shoe polish. Common in British boarding schools and fraternities.

See also

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